Shelf and other like bracket.



f J. H. MORGAN. SHELF AND OTHER LIKE BRACKET. APILIOATION FILED SEPT. 23, 1910.

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Patented June 4, *1912.

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SHELF AND OTHER LIKE BRAUKET.

APPLICATION I'ILBD SEPT. 23, 1910.

Patented June 4, 1912. v

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Fagfzd IF n I I Ihvntor' Witnesses v M07 077/ CDLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH Co.. WASHINGTON, D. C.

JOHN HENRY MORGAN, or HARROGATE, ENGLAND. Y

SHELF AND OTHER LIKE BRACKET.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented June 4, 1912.

Application filed September 23, 1910. Serial N o. 583,424.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN HENRY MoR- GAN, of The Grange, Harlow Oval, I-Iarrogate, in the county of York, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Shelf and other Like Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in brackets used for supporting shelves and other like articles for which such brackets are employed, of the type formed out of a single blank of sheet metal which is stamped vto the required shape in dies, provided with a central rib either in one piece, or divided into two portions and riveted together, and in which one or more V- shaped, or rectangular, or other shaped orifices have been cut in the blank to form a butt oint, or to receive a strutt, or in which blanks folded to a T section have been notched at the angle bend.

The object of this invention is to form or construct a bracket by stamping or bending out of a single diamond shaped blank, or a blank made parallel, or slightly to taper from each of its ends and on each side of its center line with or without a diamond shaped `or bulged portion which unites the two ends together, and with a strengthening rib formed out of such blank without the blank being cut or perforated as described in the United States of America patent specification No. 852975, and at the same time providing the bracket with the smallest possible curve at the corner formed where the two portions of the blank are turned at a right angle to each other. In this invention the rib is provided with a V-shaped recess or indent formed by stamping and folding, and it is made to form an abutment for the two portions and which will be kept in contact with each other by the weight of the shelf, or the goods placed thereon, without riveting or other means of securing the two portions of the rib together. By this invention a light and perfectly strong bracket can be made at a very small cost without being weakened by perforating the blank or allowing any portion of the ribs to overlap or envelop each other.

In the drawings hereunto annexed IihaveV shown two methods of carrying this invention into practice. I

Figure 1 is a plan of a blank wit-hout boX corners constructed according to this invention; Fig. 2 is an elevation of the blank showing the rib formed with V-shaped recess or indent therein; Fig. 3 is a plan looking at the top of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a plan looking at the underside of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a transverse section on line A, B, Fig. 2; Fig. 6 is a transverse section on line C, D, Fig. 2; Fig. 7 is an elevation of the complete bracket; Fig. 8 is an end elevation of the left hand side of Fig. 7; Fig. 9 is an end elevation of the right hand side of Fig. 7; Fig. 10 is a plan looking at the top of Fig. 7; Fig. 11 is a plan of a blank for constructing a bracket with box corners according to this invention; Fig. 12 is an elevation showing the rib formed with the V-shaped recess or indent therein; Fig. 13 isV a plan looking on the top of Fig. 12; Fig. 14 is an elevation of the complete bracket; Fig. 15 is an elevation and part section on line E, F, Fig. 14; Fig. 16 is a plan looking at the top of Fig. v14; Fig. 17 is a lpart elevation of a bracket with .a corrugated corner; Fig. 18 a sectional elevation on line G, H, Fig. 17. l

Like parts in all the views are marked with similar letters of reference.

a is the blank of sheetmetal of any suitable length, width, and thickness, say, shaped somewhat like an elongated diamond with round or shaped ends o. At Fig. 1 the blank is shown with round ends b and with portions c, c at suitable distances from each of the round ends made parallel or to taper for a certain distance from each end b, and then to gradually, either by st-raight or inclined lines, or curved, to increase in width until they are united together either at an angle to each other or by curves cl, cl, Fig. 11. The blank may be cut to the required shape by dies, or `in any other ksuitable or convenient manner. After being cut to shape it is placed in suitable dies, and by means of stamping or pressing a central rib e is formed. The rib is made to taper a suitable distance from each end b of the blank toward its center, or a longer distance from one end of the blank than from the other. In the blank is formedby stamping and folding in dies a V-shaped recess or indent f as shown at Figs. 2 and 12. The distance of the V-shaped recess from each end of the blank will be determined by the lengths of the wall plate g and shelf plate t. The recess f thus formed in the ,rib c is flattened out and partially fills the recess at this point, as well as form a bearing surface. The angle of the sides .of the recess may approximately be, say, at or.

about an angle of forty-five degrees. 'The portion z', z', of t-he blank on'each side ofthe rib is, during the stamping or pressing o-peration, turned out at a Iright angle to the rib so as to form a flange which constitutes the wall and shelf plates g and Zt when the portions of the bracket are turned at orv shelf plate Z1., while the portion to the left hand of the said recess forms the wall plate g, and when lthese two portions are turned at a right angle to each other the flattened portion-s of 'the recess f are brought together and made to abut against each other, as shown at Figs. '7 and 14, and thus form a natural support -or stop for receiving kthe pressure that may be placed upon the hori- Zontal arm lor shaft suppo-rting portion h ofthe bracket.

Holes y', 7c may be lformed inthe shelf and wall yplates `g and fh 'through which screws or nails, or other means of lixing are passed for xing the said parts in position.

When it is desired to form a corner piece Z on the flanges of vvthe bracket in Vorder to obtain greater strength, then the bracket maybe placed in another set of suitable dies so constructed as not only to bring the rib portions e, c, and wall and shelf plates at a right angle to each other, but also to draw out the outside of the projections m on the flanges z', z', Fig. 13 to form the boX corners Z, "Z Fig. 14. Or, the corrugated corners Z1-Z1 Fig. 18, thatis to say, a number of corrugations n, n are formed in the flanges z', Z oneach side of the central web e between the points 1 and 2 of Fig. 17. The portions thus drawn out form a boX corner Z as shown at Fig. 14, or of the shape shown at Z1 Fig. 17 with the result that when the two formed 4portions of the ribs are in contact with'each other -greater strength is imparted to the bracket and the 'riveting or weld* ing, or otherwise securing the two portions of the ribs is dispensed with.

Bracketsconstructed according to this invention having -its horizontal arm turned at a right angle to its wall plate fit closely int-o thecorner ywithout any large curve through which ldust and vermin may pass and accumulate in the hollow of the rib, and they angle to the wall plate.

are Ymuch stronger than when the rib is sim- -ply curved over as there is little or no danger of the material ybreaking when the shelf plate is 'turned lor bent at or about a right What I claim is 1. A bracket formed of a single blank of sheet metal having a central longitudinal rib, the walls of which are spaced from each other and a flange on each side of *said rib, a `\/-shaped depression being formed in said rib by which ythe lwalls ofthe lrib are spread laterally and vform fiat abutting surfaces, said rib vgradually increasing in height from each end to said notch, said flanges being bent approximately at a right angle Vto bring the opposite fiat surfaces into contact and thereby provide al support Vfor the outwardlyu` projecting armof the bracket.

2. A bracket formed from a single elon'- 75 gated diamond shaped blank of sheet metal, comprising a central 'folded hollow taper ing rib, a tapering 1flange on each side lof the rib, a protuberance yon each flange at a suitable distance from the ends of vthe blank, 8O a V-shaped indent recess with flattened faces formed in the rib, va portion of each portion of the rib and flanges bent approximately at a right angle until one iiattened face rests upon the-other and the said pro- S5 tuberance turnedfat or about a right angle into strengthening corner pieces'on the outer edges of the flanges.

3. A bracket consist-ing of a hollow folded central rib formed outof'a flat blankof 90 sheet metal vformed to the required shape in`r` dies, said rib having a flange and a Vprotuberance on each side thereof, a ll-shaped indent recess in `the upper surface of the rib forming Vopposed flattened faces, corrugations in the flanges for a distance on each side of the 'il-shaped recess, said 'rib and flanges being bent approximately at right angles until one ofthe said flattened faces is in contact with the other, turning in the protuberance to form strengthening corner pieces along and at right angles to the outer edges of lthe flanges, and means for securing the two fiattened faces `of the V-shaped recess together.

JOHN HENRY MORGAN.

Vitnesses FREDERICK PIATT, JAMES WHITELAW.

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